What Evolution Is

What Evolution Is
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 9781780227689
ISBN-13 : 178022768X
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Book Synopsis What Evolution Is by : Ernst Mayr

Download or read book What Evolution Is written by Ernst Mayr and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What we do and do not know about evolution, by one of the field's pioneering thinkers. Evolution is the most important idea in biology, with implications that go far beyond science. But despite more than a century's progress in understanding, there is still widespread confusion about what evolution is, how it works and why it is the only plausible mechanism that can account for the remarkable diversity of life on Earth. Now, for the first time in a book aimed at a general audience, one of the founding fathers of modern biology tells us what we know - and what we do not know - about evolution. In showing how evolution has gone from theory to fact, he explores various controversial fads and fallacies such as punctuated equilibrium, the selfish-gene theory and evolutionary psychology. He ends by looking at what we know about human evolution and how, in turn, this knowledge has affected the way in which we view ourselves and the world.


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